MarkHarris3d

46 yo Husband, father, teacher, student, mental health therapist, Believer, Bayern Munich supporter.

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@ALL32NFL_ Come with me and support Bayern and the Bundesliga!

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@vcatalina96 Maybe some recency bias. Not too long ago Bayern had the “easier” draw with Benfica. How did that turn out?

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The most influential immigrant group in American history is the one nobody argues about, because almost nobody remembers it was them.

Start at the beginning. The Continental Army was a half-trained mess until Baron von Steuben, a Prussian officer, showed up at Valley Forge and drilled it into a real fighting force. The freedom of the press you take for granted traces back to John Peter Zenger, a German immigrant printer whose 1735 trial established that you can't be jailed for printing the truth. German-Americans were shaping this country before there was a country.

Then look around your own life. Your Christmas tree is German. The hot dog (Frankfurt), the hamburger (Hamburg), the pretzel, the delicatessen, all German. Kindergarten is German, the word and the idea, brought over and opened by Margarethe Schurz. Blue jeans came from Levi Strauss of Bavaria. Heinz ketchup, Steinway pianos, Oscar Mayer, and the big four beers, Budweiser, Pabst, Miller and Schlitz, were every one founded by German immigrants.

The Brooklyn Bridge was engineered by John Roebling, born in Prussia. The Santa Claus you picture every December, plus the Republican elephant, were drawn by Thomas Nast, a German immigrant. Pfizer was founded by Charles Pfizer, who arrived from Germany in 1848. Boeing was built by the son of a German immigrant. John Jacob Astor showed up from Germany with next to nothing and became America's first multimillionaire. Charles Steinmetz, a disabled immigrant nearly turned away at the border, went on to make modern electrical power possible.

And it kept going. Wernher von Braun designed the rocket that put America on the moon. Einstein was German. Carl Schurz, a refugee, became a Union general and the first German-born US Senator. Eisenhower commanded D-Day and won the White House under a name once spelled Eisenhauer. Babe Ruth was a German-American kid from Baltimore.

Here is the kicker. German is the single largest ancestry group in the entire United States, around 44 million people, bigger than Irish, English or Italian. The biggest thread in the whole American fabric, and somehow the quietest.

They never asked for parades. They just trained the army, freed the press, engineered the bridges, founded the companies, built the rockets and lit up the Christmas mornings, then blended in so completely you forgot they were ever the "other." That might be the most American story there is.

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@arny_dm If someone offers to buy you dinner, how do you handle that? I find myself once or twice a month doing things with work colleagues and I compromise on my carbs (when in Rome) but then getting back on track is tough.

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@BepsiKoler I feel this in my soul. :)

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@ScienceExpand @sarahsalviander people arguing in the comments that the universe is in perpetual motion. Is that true?

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@jamie_saris @sarahsalviander @grok test the veracity of this man’s claims, please. Be as neutral as you can be.

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@dr_ericberg I'm a guy. I don't have periods. :)

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@fiago7 Rudiger is human garbage. I hate that he’s on the national team. I prefer to cheer for the players on my team. I’ll take anyone over him.

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@ManaBoxApp Hey there! 46male and just now starting to play the game. I have played the Arena game on my phone a little. Is there a place on your app to load up my Arena cards or is it mainly the paper cards. Thanks a ton, looking forward to getting into the game!

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@jakehmccoy @MikeWingerii While I disagree with your position, it makes sense to me. Thank you for your kind and thoughtful response. May the Lord bless you.

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@usmntonly As long as Lalas isn’t there. I’ve switched to watching Telemundo, the US coverage is so bad.

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@MapotherThimas @usmntonly @Ibra_official @AlexiLalas As an American, Lalas is a complete tool and should be mocked. By everyone.

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@engineers_feed @sarahsalviander wait, what?!

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@TheBabylonBee You cut me, Bee.

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@ADFcb_ @SimonJones_DM @grok tell me about this player. Would he fit into Kompany’s system or not so much?

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@FabrizioRomano @vcatalina96 @grok tell me about Saibari. What kind of player is he and how does he fit into Vincent Kompany’s system?